Wind power
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008We told you last month about how T. Boone Pickens, the founder of Mesa Petroleum was talking about building the world’s biggest wind farm. Some great quotes - ‘”You need a giant plan for America. Not the pissant 83 megawatt [windfarm] deals being stamped all over the country. There needs to be a […]
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Wind farms sprout in western New York
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Wyoming County in western New York has undergone quite a boom in wind turbine installation, as the county that has 43,000 people and 46,000 dairy cows is home to 67 turbines generating 100 megawatts of electricity, all of which is being fed into the national power grid. Noble Environmental Power, the company behind the turbines, […]
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T. Boone Pickens thinking big when it comes to wind
Sunday, April 13th, 2008When it comes to Big Oil, one of the names that comes to mind is that of T. Boone Pickens. The founder of Mesa Petroleum is now worth over $3 billion, and his company is one of the largest independent oil companies in the world.
But right now Mr. Pickens is thinking about wind. […]
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Mariah Power to begin shipping the Windspire on April 18th
Friday, April 11th, 2008According to Greentechmedia, Mariah Power will begin shipping its $3,995 vertical wind turbine, the Windspire, by the end of next week - April 18th. The Windspire, which is targeted for the residential market, is a vertical axis wind power turbine that can produce about 1,800 kilowatt-hours per year in 11 mph hour winds. […]
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Spain breaks wind power record
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Sometime last weekend, wind power in Spain accounted for just over 40% of all electricity consumed in that country. Saturday night was very windy, and Spain’s wind parks generated 9,852 megawatts of electricity which equaled 40.8 percent of total consumption. While it was a low demand period due to the Easter holiday, for […]
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Southern California Edison starts construction on US largest wind transmission project
Saturday, March 8th, 2008Southern California Edison announced Friday that it had started construction on the largest wind power transmission project in the use. The Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project includes a series of new and upgraded high-voltage transmission lines capable of delivering 4,500 megawatts of electricity from wind power farms in Northern Los Angeles and Eastern Kern […]
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Xcel Energy to store wind power with new battery
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Utility company Xcel Energy will begin testing a new one-megawatt (MW) battery that will be charged by wind power. The battery, which is being made by Japan’s NGK Insulators Ltd., could power 500 homes for over 7 hours. It’s designed to be used to store wind power so that it can be distributed […]
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Utah to help property owners evaluate wind power
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Here’s what sounds like a good and useful thing that states can do to encourage alternative energy use. The Utah Geological Survey will lend wind-measuring anemometer towers to residents to help determine if their property can become a reliable source of wind power. Utah says that they will install either a […]
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UK trees spark wind turbine wrangle
Thursday, February 14th, 2008We all know we’re going to see many more of these stories - I told you about Neighbors in conflict over solar panels about a month ago. Now we have a couple of neighbors over in the UK fighting it out over a wind turbine and, as the wind turbine owner puts it, […]
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New vertical axis wind turbine design - Windpower’s “Aerogenerator”
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008The picture doesn’t give a good sense of the size of this thing, but the new Aerogenerator vertical axis turbine being designed by Windpower is 144 meters high, and would generate up to 9 megawatts of electricity. According to an article in the Guardian, the Aerogenerator would generate nearly 3 times the amount of electricity as […]
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